What I want to express to you is, all you have to do is trust and believe and start out on your path. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. And as you take each step, more information gets revealed to you. How does that information get revealed to you?
Well, [...]
Sometimes speakers get like that. They get too big for their britches and they feel that everyone knows them so they don’t need to do anything. Now, I speak at a lot of seminars and a lot of times people do know me, but I always ask the question so I know how to gauge [...]
As an emcee you need to control your down time. What I mean by down time is; you have to have things planned. There can’t really be any lack of flow in your seminar. If you’re on a break, that’s different. That means no one is on stage, no one is holding a microphone and no [...]
I tie in a story that is a true story between me and that speaker. It could have happened yesterday, it could have happened at another seminar, or lunch or years ago. I tie the speaker in with me and that brings them closer to the audience, because I’m the closest person to the audience [...]
Now I know that the biggest key or a huge key to this whole process is the power to persuade another person and its not just enough that your product is the greatest you have to be able to present that product as the greatest and you also need to be able to teach that’s [...]
Part of the job of the emcee, was introducing people onto the stage. How is that done? Well, introducing a person is not just a matter of saying, well let me give you an example of a bad introduction. I had a bad introduction at a very well known seminar.
There was this person who was [...]
Another part of being an emcee is to make sure that your seminar stays on time. You need to make sure your seminar stays on time. The biggest complaint that people have at any kind of seminar that I’ve ever been to is, it ran over it wasn’t staying on time.
You handed out a schedule [...]
A major trend is happening in the seminar world. That is that there are more and more seminars being put on, especially towards the latter part of the year.
People have been joint venturing together on seminars. More and more seminars are coming out on many different topics.
They have workshops coming out and therefore [...]
If you’re just starting, the biggest way that you’re going to fill your seats is by joint ventures. That’s going to be the biggest method. I would suggest that you get your speakers to help you promote your event. In many case that will work. In some cases, it won’t. It will always help you [...]
Affiliate strategy number two is recognition. You need to recognize who is doing the work. We talked about using trophies and bonuses. Give them the recognition that they deserve because they’re doing you a huge favor in doing so. It’s amazing to me what people will do for recognition.
It’s not all about money. In [...]
